David Settle Reid

David Settle Reid (19 April 1813-19 June 1891) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NC 3) from 4 March 1843 to 4 March 1847 (succeeding William Henry Washington and preceding Daniel Moreau Barringer), Governor of North Carolina from 1 January 1851 to 6 December 1854 (succeeding Charles Manly and preceding Warren Winslow), and a US Senator from 6 December 1854 to 4 March 1859 (succeeding Willie Person Mangum and preceding Thomas Bragg).

Biography
David Settle Reid was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1813, the nephew of Congressman Thomas Settle. At age 16, he became postmaster of Reidsville (which was named for his father), and he became a lawyer in 1833. In 1848, he ran for Governor of North Carolina as the long-shot Democratic candidate, demanding universal (white) manhood suffrage, a demand called "communism" and "Jacobinical" by the Whigs. However, Reid lost by only 854 votes, and he won the 1850 election, serving for almost four years. In 1854, he was appointed to the US Senate to succeed Willie Person Mangum, and he took part in an 1861 peace convention in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of the American Civil War. He then became a member of the state's 1875 constitutional convention, and he died in 1891.